Related Words for directive

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guiding
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Noun, Noun
leading
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Noun, Noun
directional
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Noun, Noun
directing
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Noun, Adjective
mandate
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Noun
edict
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Noun
communique
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Noun
missive
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Noun
ultimatum
xx/x
Noun
decree
x/
Noun
explicit
x/x
Adjective
directorate
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Noun
regulations
xx/x
Noun
initiative
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Noun
guideline
/x
Noun
proclamation
xx/x
Noun
unambiguous
xx/xx
Adjective
exemption
x/x
Noun
imperative
x/xx
Noun
declaration
xx/x
Noun
exhortation
xx/x
Noun
memo
/x
Noun
guidance
/x
Noun
authority
x/xx
Noun
policy
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Noun
specification
xxx/x
Noun
injunction
x/x
Noun
draconian
x/xx
Adjective
authorisation
xxx/x
Noun
precedent
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Noun
wording
/x
Noun
advisory
x/xx
Name
overridden
/x/x
Verb
executive
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Noun
instruction
x/x
Noun
permissive
x/x
Adjective
restriction
x/x
Noun
appropriate
x/xx
Adjective
legislation
xx/x
Noun
admonishment
x/xx
Noun
official
x/x
Noun
implicit
x/x
Adjective
subliminal
x/xx
Adjective
enforcement
x/x
Noun
reversal
x/x
Noun
statement
/x
Noun
unequivocal
xx/xx
Adjective
authorization
xxx/x
Noun
ordinance
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Noun
prescriptive
x/x
Adjective
precautionary
x/xxx
Adjective
permissible
x/xx
Adjective
command
x/
Noun
ambiguous
x/xx
Adjective
forward
/x
Adverb
designate
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Verb
instruct
x/
Verb
dominate
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Verb
convergent
x/x
Adjective
dedicate
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Verb
associate
x/xx
Noun
articulate
x/xx
Adjective
active
/x
Adjective
initiate
x/xx
Verb
pattern
/x
Noun
situate
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Verb
consecrate
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Verb
segregate
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Verb
elicit
x/x
Verb
founding
/x
Noun
conformal
x/x
Adjective
bound
/
Adjective
ine
/
Adjective
recital
x/x
Adjective, Noun
airworthiness
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Adjective
parental
x/x
Noun
assembler
x/x
Adjective
compiler
x/x
Adjective
sectioning
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Adjective
overly
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Adverb
annex
/x
Noun
exec
x/
Adjective
redirect
xx/
Adjective
align
x/
Adjective
barbarossa
/x/x
Name
comintern
x/x
Adjective, Name
transpose
x/
Verb
eia
xx
Name
configures
x/x
Verb
transposition
xx/x
Noun
controlling
x/x
Noun
title
/x
Adjective
defaults
x/
Noun
proposal
x/x
Noun
highly
/x
Adjective
advance
x/
Adjective
preamble
x/x
Noun
amending
x/x
Verb
keyword
/x
Noun
landfill
/x
Noun
drafters
/x
Noun
attribute
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Noun
article
/xx
Noun, Verb
pursuance
x/x
Noun
presidential
xx/x
Adjective
quite
/
Adjective
comply
x/
Verb
working
/x
Adjective
macarthur
x/x
Name
incineration
x/xxx
Noun
stipulates
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Verb
implementation
xxx/x
Noun
pursuant
x/x
Verb, Noun
disables
x/x
Verb
provisions
x/x
Noun
issue
/x
Verb
issuance
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Noun
notification
xxx/x
Noun
compliance
x/x
Noun
packaging
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Noun
obliges
x/x
Verb
rescinded
x/x
Verb
annulment
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Noun
drafting
/x
Noun
somewhat
//
Adjective
harmonization
xxx/x
Noun
ambit
xx
Noun
revoke
x/
Verb
european
xx/x
Name
disobeyed
xx/
Verb
contravention
xx/x
Noun
prime
/
Adjective
adoption
x/x
Noun
specifies
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Verb
terse
/
Adjective
accordance
x/x
Noun
else
/
Adjective
ministerial
xx/xx
Adjective
eisenhower
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Name
eec
/
Name
correlates
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Noun
electrical
x/xx
Noun
mao
x/
Name
scope
/
Noun
curt
/
Adjective
admonition
xx/x
Noun
aggressive
x/x
Adjective, Noun
appointment
x/x
Noun
assertive
x/x
Adjective
autocratic
xx/x
Adjective
behest
x/
Noun, Verb
bossy
/x
Noun, Adjective
charter
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
coercive
x/x
Adjective
commission
x/x
Noun, Verb
confrontational
xx/xx
Adjective
conjoint
x/
Adjective
decision
x/x
Noun, Verb
dictatorial
xx/xx
Adjective
direction
x/x
Noun
directors
x/x
Noun
document
/xx
Noun, Verb
emotive
x/x
Adjective, Noun
enactment
x/x
Noun
erd
/
Name
facilitative
x/xxx
Adjective
focused
/x
Adjective
governing
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Adjective
hereto
x/x
Adverb
justification
xxx/x
Noun
leadership
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Noun
managerial
xx/xx
Adjective
manipulative
x/xxx
Adjective, Noun
measure
/x
Noun, Verb
member
/x
Noun, Verb
order
/x
Noun, Verb
participative
x/xxx
Adjective
patent
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
presiding
x/x
Adjective
preventative
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Adjective, Noun
proactive
//x
Adjective
prohibiting
x/xx
Verb
pronouncement
x/x
Noun
recommendation
xxx/x
Noun
repressive
x/x
Adjective
steering
/x
Noun
stipulation
xx/x
Noun
supportive
x/x
Adjective
suppressive
x/x
Adjective
tell
/
Verb, Noun
text
/
Noun, Verb
tor
/
Noun, Adjective
trustees
x/
Noun
headlines
/x
Noun
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
expression
x/x
Noun
get
/
Verb, Noun
save
/
Verb, Noun
breakeven
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Verb, Noun, Adjective
stovepipe
/x
Noun, Verb
literally
/xxx
Adverb
idiomatic
xxx/x
Adjective, Noun
no
/
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
sorta
/x
Adverb
cloth
/
Noun
collocation
xx/x
Noun
anymore
xx/
Adverb
backwater
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Noun, Verb
off
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun